locking-urgent-2021-11-28
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28 Nov 16:23
- Plug a race in the lock handoff which is caused by inconsistency of the reader and writer path and can lead to corruption of the underlying counter. - down_read_trylock() is suboptimal when the lock is contended and multiple readers trylock concurrently. That's due to the initial value being read non-atomically which results in at least two compare exchange loops. Making the initial readout atomic reduces this significantly. Whith 40 readers by 11% in a benchmark which enforces contention on mmap_sem.